Word: girls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seated massively at his desk that day in 1905, John Pierpont Morgan seemed lost in thought. He hardly even bothered to look up when his nephew Junius appeared before him with a slim, grey-eyed girl in tow. "Uncle," said Junius, "this is Miss...
...starts dropping other middleweights like bulls in a stockyard. He also becomes adept at dropping his friends, usually with a kick in the teeth. In one way or another, he gets rid of his bride (whom he married at the point of a gun), his manager, a couple of girl friends, and even his brother...
...GIRL ON THE VIA FLAMINIA (215 pp.)-Alfred Hayes-Harper...
...especially adventurous man; back in Buffalo he had been a hardworking, uninspired advertising salesman. As a soldier in Italy, he had weathered battle and he was deadly tired of the male odors and loud talk of the army barracks. More than anything else, he wanted to find a complaisant girl. For Lisa, the girl he found in Rome, it was a case of surrender or hunger. But Robert and Lisa soon found that love could never be simple, not even when it was sold by a desperate Italian girl to a lonely G.I. in a tawdry room on Rome...
...This reminds us of an incident which occurred some years ago on ship-board. It was the Fourth of July and a young Englishman found it most amusing to tell his American acquaintances that "in England we call it 'Thanks-giving.'" He kept repeating his joke until an American girl remarked that she had always supposed the British called it Christmas. The Englishman wanted to know...